>With the news that the Abbott compendium is finally no more, the
>time has come to reveal that a successor is in the works. There have
>been various rumors about this, so I thought I'd shed a little
>light. The new compendium (probably not that title, though the word
>'compendium' will be in there somewhere) will not appear until at
>least 2009. It will be a little larger in scope than the original,
>though not so much as to make it unwieldy and uneconomical. It is
>aimed at the same readership - collectors, museum collections
>managers, school and college libraries and the general public - and
>will perform the same role in presenting a good cross-section of all
>the shell-bearing families worldwide, together with chapters on
>collecting and storing shells, and most importantly an up-to-date
>list of standard reference works for each family. It will be a
>single volume, and will hopefully be priced so that everyone who
>bought the Abbott compendium will be able to buy the new one too. It!
>  s content will differ from that of the original sufficiently that
>the two will complement each other, but the new book will also be a
>good stand-alone guide to the shelled Mollusca in its own right.
>Things are well along with this project, but I am always leery of
>announcing publication dates for books that are not being done on
>commission for a publisher. I can thus say at this stage 'yes, it's
>coming; no, I don't know exactly when'.
>
>Paul Callomon
>Collections Manager
>Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
>Department of Malacology
>Academy of Natural Sciences
>1900 Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA
>Tel 215-405-5096
>Fax 215-299-1170
>Secretary, American Malacological Society
>On the web at www.malacological.org

Vergut! If there's a list for initial buyers, please put me on it!

Indeed, signed by the authors!
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
"There is water at the bottom of the ocean"  - Talking Heads

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